In the last few years dystopian fiction has proved consistently popular. Titles like The Hunger Games have attracted huge fanbases as has the medium-crossing The Walking Dead. The genre of bleak… Read more Book Review: The Death of Grass by John Christopher →
It might not be an original observation, but it did all really used to be so different. There was a time when, after a film had finished its run at… Read more Reading Room: Videodrome and the Lost Art of the Movie Novelization →
In all the controversy surrounding The Da Vinci Code, it was never entirely clear whether Dan Brown was presenting the theories contained within the book as fact or fiction. The same… Read more Reading Room Review: Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken →
When it was first published in 2003, Mark Haddon’s murder mystery The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time received rave reviews, plenty of awards and ended up… Read more Reading Room Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon →
First published in 1964, Nova Express by Williams S Burroughs continued the literary experimentation that he had begun with his earlier books Naked Lunch and Interzone. Like those works, it challenges the… Read more Reading Room Review: Nova Express by William S Burroughs →
A cover design for William Burroughs’ 1964 novel Nova Express. I’ll be posting a review of the book in the next few days. Damian
Strange and Lost Visions 